Window-shade bracket



F. G. HOGUE.

WINDOW SHADE BRACKET.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. l3, raw.

1,354,397, PatentedSept. 28,1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFHZE.

FRANK G.

HCGUE, OF BIRIvIINGI'IAIvI, ALABAMA.

WINDOW-SHADE nnnerzn r.

Application T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK G. HocUn, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Jefferson and State of Alabama, have invented new and useful Improvements in Nindow- Shade Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive window shade bracket adapted to be struck from sheet metal or the like with due regard to economy in the use of material and in the cost of manufacture and adapted to be substantially and reliably engaged with a window frame or casing without marring or mutilating the latter and without presenting an unsightly appearance in the room or apartment in which the device may be used, and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front view of a pair of the brackets applied in the operative position to a window casing and showing a shade roller mounted thereon.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the brackets detached.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the blank from which the bracket is formed and indicating the appearance thereof when struck or stamped from a sheet of metal or like material.

Fig. 4 is a detail view of one of the roller bearing members.

The bracket consists essentially of a single member adapted to be struck or stamped from sheet metal in the form indicated in Fig. 3 and having the angularly disposed arms 10 and 11 with one of which is connected a segment 12, said segment at its free end and the arm 11 at its extremity being provided respectively with registering openings 13 and 14 for engagement by a bolt 15 or the equivalent thereof to hold the members of the bracket, after they have been bent or folded. into the form shown in Fig. 2 in their proper relative positions. At the rear edges of the members 10 and 11 of the bracket there are provided spurs 16 for engagement with the upper and side edges of the window casing as will be understood by reference to Fig. 1, and a similar spur 17 may be provided at the free end of the arm or member 10 for a similar purpose. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. '28, 1920.

folding lines upon which the parts are designed to be bent, after the blank has been formed, are indicated by the dotted lines 18 in Fig. 3, the parts thereby being disposed in the relative arrangement indicated in Fig. 2.

it will be noted that the angularly disposed arms or members 10 and 11 bear respectively upon the upper and side edges of the frame 19 of the window casing and secured to the segment or arcuate member 12 which connects the extremities of the arms or members 10 and 11, as by a bolt 20 is a bearing member 21 having a bearing 22 for the terminal trunnion of the shade roller 23, said bearing member being provided with a longitudinal slot 24 to receive the bolt and the latter being fitted with a thiunb nut 25 which serves to clamp the bearing member at the desired adjustment with relation to the bracket to maintain the bear ings 22 in proper positions to suit the length of the shade roller.

From the description it will be understood that the bracket may be arranged in position merely by fitting the angularly disposed arms or members 10 and 11 thereof over the corner between the side and end edges of the window frame or casing, the se unental or arcuate connecting member 12 lying in contact with the face ofthe casing or frame and adapted to be ornamented or modeled to suit the contour of the surface of the molding forming the window casing, and that the removal of the bracket will not leave unsightly markings or objectionable holes or punctures in the woodwork inasmuch as the engagement of the spurs 16 and 17 thereof are arranged to engage the edge portions of the casing close to the plane of the surface of the wall or even to pass between the rear surface of the woodwork of the casing and the surface of the wall.

What is claimed is:

1. A window shade bracket having angularly disposed spurred arms or members connected by a segmental or arcuate member of which the latter is adapted to lie adjacent to the face or exposed surface of a window frame or casing, and a bearing member adj ustably mounted upon said arcuate or segmental member and having a bearing for a shade roller terminal.

2. A window shade bracket having angularly disposed arms or members for contact respectively with the top and side edges of a window casing and a connecting arouate or segmental member extending between the extremities of said angularly disposed arms or members, a bolt carried by said arcuate or segmental member at an intermediate point thereof, a roller bearing member having a longitudinal slot engaged with said bolt, and a thumb nut engaged with the bolt 7 for securing said bearing member in adjust- FRANK e. HOGUE. 

